1. Artificially formal
   "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
   - artificial, contrived, hokey [N. Amer]

See also: affected, stiltedly, unnatural

• Maktab al-Khidmat
• mal de la rosa
• mal de mer
• mal rosso
• mal-
• mala fide
• Malabar kino
• Malabo
• malabsorption
• malabsorption syndrome
• Malacanthidae
• malacca
• malacca cane
• Malachi
• Malachias
• malachite
• malacia
• Malaclemys
• Malaclemys centrata
• malacologist
• malacology
• Malaconotinae
• malacopterygian
• Malacopterygii
• Malacosoma